The first of its kind anywhere, the UCLA/SPARC César Chávez Digital Mural lab offers digital imaging options for large-scale mural productions in a service-based learning environment for students of UCLA's César Chávez Center and the World Arts and Cultures Department. The Digital Mural Laboratory is used to teach the UCLA Digital/Mural Imaging Workshop Course entitled "Beyond the Mexican Mural-Muralism and Community Development" offered concurrently by the César Chávez Center, the World Arts and Cultures and Fine Arts Departments, and taught by Professor Judith F. Baca. The UCLA Digital Mural Laboratory is located at the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), a Los Angeles landmark, in the old art deco style Venice Police Station building 15 minutes from campus.  SPARC has, over a twenty year period, sponsored much of Los Angeles' rich legacy of murals in every community citywide. This non-profit educational/art organization houses the largest mural archive in the world, as well as, a public art gallery, mural painting studio, printmaking and photography facilities.  The Digital Mural Laboratory offers UCLA students from multiple disciplines and majors the opportunity to work in a community setting to create public art projects in Los Angeles through the use of state-of-the art digital technology. Courts Housing Development complex in East Los Angeles Estrada Courts is nationally known for housing over 300 murals, although none of them are digital. The newly created digital murals developed by UCLA students of the lab honor six different aspects of resident life at the complex. Mural themes range migration from one country to another, to the honoring of life, to the celebration of generations of family, to the tribute to young men and young women. The DML's current project is in production in association with the Getty's restoration of "America Tropical " on Olvera Street and is funded in part by El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument Authority Department, SPARC, and the Los Angeles Cultural affairs department.  The Getty's multi-million dollar restoration of the Mexican Master Muralist work by David Alfaro Siqueiros will be opened to the public in 2001. Our students are producing three murals at the entrance to Siqueiros' famous mural entitled Los Angeles Tropical, which will draw comparisons between Siqueiros' vision of Los Angeles of the 1930's and young peoples vision of Los Angeles at the end of the 20th century in 1999. UCLA students are working with at risk youth from East Los Angeles' community Center, El Proyecto Pastoral directed by father Greg Boyle. These works, which will be permanently installed at the site, will receive millions of viewers once America Tropical is reopened to the public. Judy Baca